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- Title:
- An Elevated View of the New Dock in Wapping
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1803
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 21 5/8 × 34 5/8 inches (54.9 × 87.9 cm), Plate: 19 1/4 × 33 1/2 inches (48.9 × 85.1 cm), Image: 16 × 30 1/2 inches (40.6 × 77.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: "(d)"; lower right: "(d)"; on verso in graphite, lower right: "[. 0000 | / . -- 10 -- | [.....]"; lower right: "Docks"
Watermark: J Whatman 1804; collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Lettered below image, lower center: "An Elevated View of the New Dock in Wapping. | This view represents the first part of the Works, as they will appear when finished, which are now executing in Wapping near the Tower, by the patriotic exertions of the London Dock Company, for the improvement of the Port of London. The Bason which is here shewn is 1260 feet in length & 690 feet in breadth, containing an Area of 20 Acres, and its object is the | accommodation of Vessels employed in every branch of Commerce, for which extensive ranges of appropriate Warehouses are preparing within the enclosure. This great public work is conceived on a scale calculated to support the dignity of the Nation, and the important interests of its Commerce; and will, when compleated, in conjunction with other magnificent works, either in | progress or contemplation, render this Metropolis ultimately the first Port, as it is already the first City in the World. | To the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, & other Directors of the London Dock Company, this Print is with their permission inscribed by their Obedient & obliged Servant | William Daniell. | Drawn & Engraved by Wm. Daniell, & Published by him, at No. 9, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Jany. 1. 1803."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.19118
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:36405
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Susan Grace Galassi, Turner's Modern and Ancient Ports : Passages Through Time, New York : The Frick Collection , New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017, p. 41, no. 32, NJ18 T85 +A12 2017 [ORBIS]